Leyton Orient have announced their club shop has raised over £20,000 in shirt sales since Tuesday morning, with fans also donating children’s kits to boost local charities.
The League Two outfit’s owner, Nigel Travis, told the Evening Standard that the club raised quadruple their usual shirt sales on Tuesday largely thanks to Tottenham fans playing their part. Orient look set to suffer financially after numerous positive coronavirus tests among their staff and players saw Tuesday’s televised Carabao Cup third round clash against Spurs called off.
Tottenham supporters have been buying Orient shirts, which will be donated to children’s hospice Haven House and children at local hospital Whipps Cross. The delivery fees, meanwhile, will go to the JE3 Foundation, a charitable organization set up in memory of the former Tottenham player and Leyton Orient manager Justin Edinburgh, who died suddenly last year aged just 49.
This is not the first time in recent months that the two clubs, whose stadiums are separated by less than five miles, have been brought together.
In May, Spurs’ star striker Harry Kane announced that he would be purchasing the shirt sponsorship rights for the Leyton Orient kit this season..
Kane donated the advertising space on the three shirts to thank health and care workers for their work during the pandemic, to Haven House, and to Mind, a charity that works around mental health issues.
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